Comic, The
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An Essay on Comedy and the Uses of the Comic Spirit, by George Meredith (Gutenberg text)
- Tennyson's Major Poems: The Comic and Ironic Patterns (1975), by James R. Kincaid (HTML at Victorian Web)
- Chaucerian Play: Comedy and Control in the Canterbury Tales (Berkeley: University of California Press, 1988), by Laura Kendrick (HTML at UC Press)
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Filed under: Comedy- An Essay on Comedy and the Uses of the Comic Spirit, by George Meredith (Gutenberg text)
- The Dramatic Values in Plautus (1918), by Wilton W. Blancké (Gutenberg text)
- Laughter: An Essay on the Meaning of the Comic, by Henri Bergson, trans. by Cloudesley Brereton and Fred Rothwell (Gutenberg text)
- Retractatio in the Ambrosian and Palatine Recensions of Plautus: A Study of the Persa, Poenulus, Pseudolus, Stichus and Trinummus (Bryn Mawr, PA: Bryn Mawr College, 1911), by Cornelia Catlin Coulter (page images at HathiTrust)
- Jonson's Moral Comedy (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, c1971), by Alan C. Dessen (PDF with commentary at Northwestern)
- Selected illustrations (unique bound volume of 80 images from Diversarum Nationum Habitus and other Bertelli works, ca. 1590), by Pietro Bertelli
- Modern American Grotesque: Literature and Photography (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2009), by James Goodwin (PDF at Ohio State)
- Apuntes para la Historia de la Caricatura (in Spanish; 1877), by Jacinto Octavio Picón (page images at HathiTrust)
- A History of Caricature and Grotesque in Literature and Art (London: Chatto and Windus, 1875), by Thomas Wright, illust. by F. W. Fairholt
- Modern American Grotesque: Literature and Photography (Columbus, OH: Ohio State University Press, 2009), by James Goodwin (PDF at Ohio State)
- A History of Caricature and Grotesque in Literature and Art (London: Chatto and Windus, 1875), by Thomas Wright, illust. by F. W. Fairholt
- The Wits, or, Sport Upon Sport (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press; London: H. Milford, Oxford University Press, 1932), ed. by John James Elson, contrib. by Robert Cox and Francis Kirkman (page images at HathiTrust)
- Green Stockings: A Comedy in Three Acts (New York and London: S. French, c1914), by A. E. W. Mason
- The Inspector-General: A Comedy in Five Acts, by Nikolai Vasil'evich Gogol', trans. by Thomas Seltzer (Gutenberg text)
- Tom Cobb (with commentary), by W. S. Gilbert (multimedia at Gilbert and Sullivan Archive)
- The Masquerader, by Katherine Cecil Thurston (Gutenberg text)
- Where There's a Will, by Mary Roberts Rinehart (Gutenberg text)
- Where There's a Will (New York: A. L. Burt Co., c1912), by Mary Roberts Rinehart, illust. by F. Vaux Wilson
- The Golden Bird, by Maria Thompson Daviess, illust. by Edward L. Chase (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- The Time of Roses (Chicago: M. A. Donohue and Co., n.d.), by L. T. Meade (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Lake of Fire (New York: C. Kendall, c1933), by Lionel Houser, illust. by Steele Savage (page images at HathiTrust)
- Buried Alive: A Tale of These Days, by Arnold Bennett (Gutenberg text)
- The Cinema Murder, by E. Phillips Oppenheim (Gutenberg text)
- The Cinema Murder (New York: A. L. Burt Co., 1917), by E. Phillips Oppenheim
- The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett (London: M. Secker, 1918), by Compton Mackenzie (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
- The Early Life and Adventures of Sylvia Scarlett (New York and London: Harper and Bros., c1918), by Compton Mackenzie (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- Fighting Fraud: Top Scams in 2021, by United States Senate Special Committee on Aging (PDF at senate.gov)
- Insults: A Practical Anthology of Scathing Remarks and Acid Portraits (New York: Greystone Press, c1941), by Max J. Herzberg (page images at HathiTrust)
- A Whimsey Anthology (New York: C. Scribner's Sons, 1906), ed. by Carolyn Wells (multiple formats at archive.org)
- Among the Humorists and After Dinner Speakers: A New Collection of Humorous Stories and Anecdotes (3 volumes; New York: P. F. Collier and Son, c1909), ed. by William Patten
- Max and Maurice: A Juvenile History in Seven Tricks (Boston: Little, Brown, and Company, 1899), by Wilhelm Busch, trans. by Charles T. Brooks (PDF page images at MSU)
- Human Passions Delineated in Above 120 Figures, Droll, Satyrical, and Humourous (1773), by Tim Bobbin, illust. by Thomas Sanders (page images at NIH)
- Books and Bookmen, by Ian Maclaren (Gutenberg text and illustrated HTML)
- The Adventures of Mother Hubbard and Her Dog (Albany: R. H. Pease, ca. 1850), contrib. by Sarah Catherine Martin (page images at childrensbooksonline.org)
- Every Body's Album (partial serial archives)
- Laughing: A Psychology of Humor (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, c1982), by Norman N. Holland (page images at Florida)
- Wit and its Relation to the Unconscious (New York: Moffat, Yard and company, 1916), by Sigmund Freud, trans. by A. A. Brill (page images at HathiTrust)
- Uproarious: How Feminists and Other Subversive Comics Speak Truth (Minneapolis and London: University of Minnesota Press, c2019), by Cynthia Willett and Julie A. Willett (HTML with commentary at umn.edu)
- Clowns and Jokers Can Heal Us: Comedy and Medicine (Berkeley et al.: UC Medical Humanities Consortium, c2011), by Albert Howard Carter (PDF with commentary at Project MUSE)
- The Circle of Anecdote and Wit: A Choice Collection of Pieces of Humour, including Many Never Before Printed (while credited to Colman on the title page, disowned by him; London: J. Williams, 1826), contrib. by George Colman (page images at HathiTrust)
- Democritus Ridens: Sive, Campus Recreationum Honestarum, Cum Exorcismo Melancholiae (in Latin, anonymously published but attributed to Lange; Augusburg: I. J. Loteri, 1754), by Johann Peter Lange
- The Kaleidoscope of Anecdotes and Aphorisms (London: R. Bentley, 1851), ed. by Catherine Sinclair
- Mélanges d'Histoire et de Litterature: Recueillis par M. de Vigneul-Marville (3 volumes in French; Rotterdam: E. Yvans, 1700-1702), by Bonaventure d' Argonne
- One Hundred Romances of Real Life (London: Whittaker and Co., 1843), ed. by Leigh Hunt, contrib. by Charlotte Smith and François Gayot de Pitaval (page images at Google)
- The Treasury of Wit, With Comic Engravings (London: Printed for T. Allman, 1836) (illustrated HTML with commentary at elfinspell.com)
- Among the Humorists and After Dinner Speakers: A New Collection of Humorous Stories and Anecdotes (3 volumes; New York: P. F. Collier and Son, c1909), ed. by William Patten
- College Humor, 1920-1921: Being a Digest of Humor Appearing in the College Humorous Publications and The Collegiate World, the National College Magazine (Chicago: Collegate World Pub. Co., c1921) (page images at HathiTrust)
- Yale Fun: A Book of College Humor in Poetry, Pictures and Prose, Chosen With Loving Care From the Yale Record of the Past Eight Years, Conceived in the Sanctum, Founded on Foam, and Dedicated to the Humorous Faculty (Hartford: R. S. Peck, c1901), ed. by Wells S. Hastings, Brian Hooker, and Henry S. Ely (page images at HathiTrust)
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